Some of y’all may not know this. It’s true I have kids and they are the best I could ask for. They look up at me with their big eyes and go MEEeeHhh. Yep I have 7 bottle goats!

Congratulations! But I didn't receive my cigar yet?!?!?

Come on up here I’ll get ya one! It may or may not be bubble gum.

Fine.... I'll take bubble gum. So whats the plan for those little sh.... I mean cuties?

Well the girls will stay and be new “girlfriends” for Amos the billy. The boys will go to the stock pen in May.

Ahh cool

How many head of goats do you guys have?

14

Ahh, cool. Whats like the max your facilitys can hold?

We lost a big sannan doe recently to pneumonia. We plan on getting 5-6 La Manchas and Nubians or a cross there of in February. The couple we got these from is in their 70s and just selling goats. So after Christmas they told us to give them a call and they would sell what ever. Best part is that he is a trapper!

Bout 30ish we have 8 acres of pure grown up crap that needs to be cleared and a big barn. My dad wants 20 more I’ll get a few because the goats are cleaning up so I can get moo cows!

Ohhh boy what kind of cows?

HERFORD!

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Why?

I dont know what your plans are for them but around here they get docked severely in the sales barn

My plans is steak! I really like Herefords! They like me I had one that decided we were friends when I went to get a goat! Angus are perfectly fine too. Just no charolias!

Cool, herefords are nice. It sucks that they're docked so bad around here. Probably not somthing I'll ever have to worry about tho, especially not if you know who gets into office. That'll be the end of my farming career if he does.

I don’t really keep a watch on prices of cattle. I don’t have the facilities to even buy one yet. I need a head catch and all kinds of stuff. But I just like raising my own meat. I’d keep boys sell girls have a bull and a cow named frank and fran

Haha yeah that would be fun. Unfortunately I jumped in feet first. Oh well. You don't need all kinds of fancy facilities, halter break your cattle and youll be good.

Yeah my dad had cows in college and had a holstine herford cross and she had a baby. Raised it got bread again maybe to a herford bull don’t quote me on that. It came time for her to give birth and her first baby was still nursing. Nine months old weighed 960lbs still nursing and didn’t even pull her down! She made all kinds of milk!

Thats a Holstein for yah

Yup. If I had milk cows I’d get brown Swiss or gurneys. Maybe jerseys but jersey bulls are mean!

Jerseys are little peices of snot the whole lot of them

Well so am I!

Well I just finished the last shift. Then it starts again at 5:45!

Are you kidding me? Why?

babies gotta eat!

At 5:45 in the morning?!?!

That’s when I woke up I fed at 6:00. They get fed at 6:00AM 12:00 AM 6:00PM and 12:00PM

Thats gotta suck

The babies literally do! I mean you’re a farmer don’t farmers wake up at the butt crack of dawn?

Yes, but that's not the suckage tho, what sucks would be having to feed 4 times a day. When I used to raise bottle calves I'd feed 3 times a day for a month and half and then twice a day for another month and a half. I hated feeding 3 times a day. It took up too much time. In the height of my bottle calf career I had 8 head on milk. I would get up at 5am and feed then go to work all day come home and feed. Then do things like bed, move calves. Treat sick ones. Move manure. Then I'd go to bed and repeat the next day. When I was feeding 8 head I was never able to feed 3 times a day tho, it never worked out so they got fed at 5am and 5pm.

Yeah baby goats are tiny they can’t hold much so they go hungry quick! The youngest 4 are getting fed 4x daily the older ones are getting fed 3x daily they are going to two in a week or two.

Yeah, the farm i work for feeds the really young ones 3x but mostly just 2x. However we're feeding around 300 head of kids every year

I’ll switch jobs with ya!

I dont even have to feed kids usually, I normally milk. But you'd have to deal with the cold and snow and I dont think a Kentucky boy could handle that

Believe me I would be fine with it! I hate hot weather! I don’t think a Wisconsin boy could handle 98* and 80% humidity! And it really does happen.

Yeah I know it happens, we get that here too. Just wait till you're inside a baler fixing it in that weather.

If anyone ever wonders why I can't find time to trap......


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Bless your heart! I’ll get you some bottle goats to ease the pain!

Please dont

I wouldn’t do that to even you know who!

I dont know who actually

I don’t know Who but I do how How. He is in Florida cause he hates cold winters

Seriously Casper you don know WHO we are talking about. Try thinking who Reaper has killed.

Wimp! I’m stinking moving to Montana!

Ohh, you know I've kinda forced his existence to the back of my mind

Yeah we all try. But I wouldn’t even want him to have bottle animals because no person should have to suffer that!

Lol

My name is Moony and I approve this message!

R u running for president?

Yep I’m 15 and I could do better than Biden!

Thats not hard bro

Says the dead man

Touche

*touché

Whatever I ain't french

I too had a kid.... his name was Thumper

Here is a picture of him. He was murdered by a turkey vulture a few years back

Aww! I have to get more rabbits! And don’t tell the game wardens but I am at war with the buzzards!

Rip Thumper. I just wanted to say a few words about our dearly beloved thumper, I may not have known Cary Grant had a cousin. I may not have known turtles can breath thru their butts, but I knew thumper like a brother. He was a friend to all and loved pizza, but in the end it was cherry sprite addiction that got the best of him. I know he's in a better place now, and hopefully sipping on sprite.
Rip Thunper.

Thank you, Casper. That was beautiful

I’m in tears. I only hope my funeral is half as beautiful!

Oh your funeral is gonna be something else, let me tell you

Your welcome

Ooo I’m gettin excited!

Hold yer horses! I ain’t dying till we all get together and eat bbq and get high on Mtn.Dew or lemon water and Reese’s!

You all know how messed up my mind is? Well I changed a friend's name in snapchat to reese's (long story) ok with this information reread what mooney wrote

Reading you guys' conversations is always interesting lol

Thank you!

You are something aren’t ya!

You should spend a day with my brain..... its never dull

I don’t want to go there! It sounds scary!

Lol you have no idea.......

How goes farming on your side of America mooney?

I’ll get you an update here in n a bit they are about to get fed!

Nice photos. I always enjoy seeing other peoples farm pics

Oh you give your dog deer heads to... thought it was just me

No that was a deer that got caught in the woven wire fence. We were back there so we were able to dispatch it and use the meat. That was on the carcass and Carl (the dog) tore the head off as a prize lol.

XD

Well Casper we brought in 3 yearling does 75-100lbs today my dad bought them I ran a Pygmy doe to freaking nose bleed price and still didn’t win her. The ones we brought in are alpine fainter X we believe.